How to buy real estate with siblings (so it doesn’t end in tears)
As high property prices make it harder for single people to buy a home and service a mortgage, it may be tempting to buy with a sibling. But take care, or you risk ruining Christmas.
When Brooke Selfe’s father suffered a brain haemorrhage in 2014, she and her brother realised it was time to make their long-time dream a reality.
“Since we were kids, we’d talked about having a house that everyone in the family could go to any time – our parents and our other siblings, partners, nieces and nephews,” says Selfe, a 46-year-old communications director based in Adelaide.
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